BURMA: TWO WHISTLE-BLOWERS SENTENCED TO DEATH

January 7, 2010: two Burmese officials were sentenced to death for leaking to North Korea and Russia details of secret government visits and a network of tunnels. Win Naing Kyaw, a former army major, and Thura Kyaw, a clerk at the European desk of Burma's foreign ministry, were sentenced by a court in Rangoon.
They were found guilty of leaking information about government visits to North Korea and Russia, which reportedly took place in 2008 and 2006.
The two men were also convicted of leaking details of a network of tunnels reportedly being built in Burma.
It is thought the tunnels were built to house communications systems, possible weapons factories and troops in the event of an invasion. (Sources: BBC, 08/01/2010)